Re: RFC: MI output during program execution

Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-09T19:36:29Z

> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:13:11 -0400
> From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
> Cc: Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>
> > I thought we wanted to have _both_ CLI and MI style response in this
> > case: the CLI response to display in the command buffer, the MI
> > response to be caught by the front end in order to change the display
> > in other windows. Am I missing something?
>
> Yes, this sounds nice to me. Currently, querying GDB/MI's state, via an
> MI function allows this, without any modifications to GDB/MI.

How would the FE know that it needs to query the state? Isn't that
the problem?